On Feb 25, 9:21*am, Damsel in dis Dress >
wrote:
> I can barely see my monitor through the smoke. *LOL!
>
> I turned a burner on to heat water for tea a little while ago. *After
> a few minutes, I noticed a burned smell, but chalked it up to the oven
> being on for heat.
>
> Then the smell got very strong. *Shit! *I had turned the burner on
> under the rice leftover from last night's dinner. *Thankfully, the lid
> was on the pan, because the rice was on fire.
>
> Took the pan outside to cool, and to reduce the amount of smoke in the
> house. *Brought it back in, and man, is it black inside that thing!
>
> What's the best (easiest) way to get the burn stains out of the pan?
> Oven cleaner, maybe? * We're dealing with stainless steel Revere Ware
> with a copper bottom, if that helps.
>
> Carol
>
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I have had some success submersing the entire pan in a bucket of water
with dishwasher soap in it and letting it soak. First, you'll have to
scrape off everything you can (without gouging the bottom of the
pan). I certainly won't hurt anything to try it.

I bought some fancy motorcycle chrome cleaner at the Harley place to
scour burned nylon (from a utensil) from the bottom of a stainless
steel All-Clad pan that my son cooked. It took lots of elbow grease
to get it off, but it was worth it. I can't remember the name of the
tube of stuff, but it was manufactured to take melted rubber off
chrome....like rubberized patches on motorcycle gear (or boot bottoms)
becoming melted onto the hot exhaust pipe.

N.